Qualcomm quiere que el mercado de servidores ejecute sus nuevos procesadores, podría ocurrir un relanzamiento

Qualcomm is a company well known for designing processors going inside a vast majority of smartphones. Sin embargo, the San Diego company has been making attempts to break out of its vision to focus on smartphones and establish new markets where it could show its potential for efficient processor design. According to Bloomberg’s insights, Qualcomm is planning to re-enter the server market and try again to compete in the now very diverse space. En 2014, Qualcomm announced that the company is developing an Arm ISA-based CPU that will target servers and be an excellent alternative for cloud service providers looking at efficient designs called Centriq. Mas tarde, in November of 2017, the company announced the first CPU Centriq 2400, Centro Pokémon 48 custom Falkor cores, six-channel DDR4 memory, y 60 MB de caché L3.

What happened later is that the changing management of the company slowly abandoned the project, and the Arm CPU market was a bit of a dead-end for many projects. Sin embargo, in recent years, many companies began designing Arm processors, and now the market is ready for a player like Qualcomm to re-enter this space. With the acquisition of Nuvia Inc., which developed crazy fast CPU IPs under the leadership of industry veterans, these designs could soon see the light of the day. It is reported that Qualcomm is in talks with Amazon’s AWS cloud division, which has agreed to take a look at Qualcomm’s offerings.

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With many players like Ampere Computing, AWS Graviton, y otros, entering this market could be tricky. Sin embargo, having the right CPU design and timely execution could enable Qualcomm to re-gain the hype train that went away with Centriq’s abandonment.